Hi Nick,

There is a difference between the newer S4 generic functions/methods and S3
generic functions.  See for example:

methods("print")
showMethods("show")
?Methods

HTH,

-Francisco

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Nick Sabbe <nick.sabbe@ugent.be> wrote:

> Hello list.
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>
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> This is from an R session (admittedly, I'm still using R 2.11.1):
>
> > print
>
> function (x, ...)
>
> UseMethod("print")
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> <environment: namespace:base>
>
> > showMethods("print")
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>
>
> Function "print":
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>  <not a generic function>
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>
>
> Don't the two results contradict each other? Or do I have a terrible
> misunderstanding of what comprises a generic function?
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> Thx,
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